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The U.S. state of Alabama has 73 known indigenous amphibian species. [1] These indigenous species include 30 frog and toad species and 43 salamander species. [2] [3] [4] Two of these native species may have become extirpated within the state. They are the Mississippi gopher frog and flatwoods salamander. [1] [5]
In the summer of 1997, more than 200,000 gray bats were counted at the cave. Other species that live in the cave include the Tennessee cave salamander (Gyrinophilus palleucus), the Rafinesque's big-eared bat (Corynorhinus rafinesquii), and the cave salamander (Eurycea lucifuga). The refuge also contains the federally endangered Price's potato bean.
A troglobite (or, formally, troglobiont) is an animal species, or population of a species, strictly bound to underground habitats, such as caves.These are separate from species that mainly live in above-ground habitats but are also able to live underground (eutroglophiles), and species that are only cave visitors (subtroglophiles and trogloxenes). [1]
Fern Cave National Wildlife Refuge is a 199-acre (0.8 km 2) National Wildlife Refuge located in northeastern Alabama, near Paint Rock, Alabama in Jackson County. Despite receiving more than 1,200 visitors per year, the facility is unstaffed; it is administered by the Wheeler National Wildlife Refuge in Decatur, Alabama .
Orconectes sheltae, the Shelta Cave crayfish, [1] is a small, freshwater crayfish endemic to Alabama in the United States. It is a cave-dwelling species known from only one cave, Shelta Cave in Madison County, Alabama. This cave is also home to O. australis and Cambarus jonesi. [1] It was first discovered in 1963, before being formally ...
The animal also had a “pinkish” belly and “elongated” body, researchers said.
Key Cave National Wildlife Refuge is a 1,060 acre (4.3 km 2) National Wildlife Refuge located in northwestern Alabama, along the Tennessee River downstream from Florence, Alabama. Additional purchases are under negotiation which will increase the size of the refuge to 1,800 acres (7.3 km 2 ).
This is a list of amphibians found in the United States. A total of 306 amphibian species have been recorded in the United States , [ 1 ] 2 of which are now extinct. [ 2 ] This list is derived from the database listing of Amphibian Species of the World .